Dr. Dre Update: Rapper’s Apology For Domestic Abuse Accepted With Hesitation


Last week, rapper and music producer Dr. Dre made a public apology regarding his past issues of domestic abuse. The abuse allegedly happened to numerous women in Dr. Dre’s past, and a few of them came forward to accept his apology, but had a few issues with what he said.

New York Times reports that Tairrie B, a singer and rapper that once shared a music label with Dr. Dre, indicated that she experienced abuse from the “I Need a Doctor” singer. She still remembers Dr. Dre punching her in the face at least two times in 1990, after she released a song with lyrics that taunted Dr. Dre. While she accepted his apology, Tairrie B was disappointed that he never mentioned the names of the women he abused.

“I think it would have had a greater impact had he mentioned the women he attacked by name.”

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Tairrie B also mentioned Dee Barnes, a journalist and former Hip Hop rapper who was also abused by Dr. Dre. Tairrie B stated that Barnes was brutally attacked by Dr. Dre while at a club. In 1990, Rolling Stone confirmed the incident. The attack apparently occurred after Barnes ran a segment on the Pump It Up video show that, according to Dr. Dre, made his group NWA look bad.

Barnes also released a statement about in 1990 about incident, stating that Dr. Dre “began slamming her face and the right side of her body repeatedly against a wall near the stairway.”

Earlier this week, Barnes wrote about her feelings on the new movie Straight Outta Compton, which portrays Dr. Dre and his former rap group NWA as they struggled to make it in the music business. Barnes feels that the movie’s lack of information on Dr. Dre’s dark past with abuse is what brought forward what he did to many women. However, she also feels that his abusive nature shouldn’t be in the movie.

“I was on my back and the knee was in my chest. That knee did not belong to a police officer, but Andre Young, the producer/rapper who goes by Dr. Dre. That event isn’t depicted in Straight Outta Compton, but I don’t think it should have been, either. The truth is too ugly for a general audience. I didn’t want to see a depiction of me getting beat up.”

After learning of Dr. Dre’s apology, Barnes spoke out, hoping that the rapper truly meant what he said.

“I hope he meant it. I hope he represents these words in his life. I hope that after all of these years, he is a changed man.”

Yet, Barnes isn’t so easy to forgive when it comes to emotional abuse. She specifically remembers the song “Guilty Conscience,” a 1999 song performed by Eminem and Dr. Dre, in which her names was used jokingly about being abused.

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Another victim of Dr. Dre’s alleged abuse is Michel’le, his former girlfriend and R&B singer who had a hit song in 1989 with “No More Lies.” Similar to Tairrie B, Michel’le found it distasteful that Dr. Dre placed all of his alleged victims into one group without apologizing individually.

“I don’t really think it’s a sincere apology. I didn’t ask for a public apology and if he’s going to apologize, he should do it individually. To just group us like we are nothing and nobody–I just don’t think it’s sincere.”

Dr. Dre has yet to respond to the comments.

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